MISSISSAUGA, ONT.—Ontario’s police watchdog says there will be no charges against an officer who inadvertently shot a 78-year-old man while putting down a deer. The Special Investigations Unit says officers responding to a report of an injured deer on a street in Thornhill, Ont., found three men had moved the incapacitated animal off the road. The trio was asked to move away after the officers decided the deer had to be put down and they used their vehicles to block traffic. An officer fired a shotgun but the slug shell passed through the deer, bounced off the sidewalk, and lodged between the man’s scalp and skull above his ear. Police applied first aid until paramedics arrived and took him to hospital, where the slug was removed.

Source: thestar September 16, 2016 20:15 UTC